Staff Web UX Engineer

The Community You Will Join: 

Launch and Product Marketing

The Launch and Product Marketing team is a newly established team that builds impactful launch and product marketing pages for Airbnb’s Guests and Hosts.  The Staff Web UX Engineer joining this team will be crucial in driving the full lifecycle of new launch and product marketing projects. This role involves working closely with Design partners to quickly brainstorm, prototype, develop, and deploy innovative animated experiences.

The team is part of the Client Products & Emerging Tech organization, which is responsible for building impactful product features for Airbnb’s Guests and Hosts with new and existing technologies, as well as horizontal components such as navigation that aim to provide a cohesive user experience. 

Learn more about Frontend Open Source projects at Airbnb, . Also, meet our Client Products & Emerging Tech leader, Cynthia Chu!

The Difference You Will Make: 

• Explore, shape, and develop new launch and product marketing experiences alongside cross-functional partners (Creative, Design, MarTech and Product);; from ideation to implementation at scale
• Drive launch and product marketing projects that emphasize responsive and dynamic motion experiences
• Develop prototypes to validate ideas while proactively considering long-term implications on technical design and architecture

• Passion for creative iteration, partnership and a sensitivity for achieving pixel perfect, elegant design
• Implement animated and responsive pages using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development
• Partner with MarTech and other engineering teams to integrate new features that impact different areas within the product
• Writing unit and integration tests, reviewing other’s code

Your Expertise: 

• 9+ years of software development experience, or 2-4+ years with an advanced degree
• Strong expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Typescript
• Strong expertise Implementing animations using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for web
• Extensive experience with modern Javascript frameworks such as React, Preact, Angular, Next, Vue or Meteor.
• Passion for delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing.
• Driving adoption of industry standards for building user interface including accessibility, internationalization, performance optimization, SEO, cross-browser compatibility, caching
• Experience scaling and architecting CSS across multiple projects and products

• Passion for building interactive and delightful user experiences

Your Location

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Airbnb,Inc. can be employed in states where we have registered entities. Currently, employees can not be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware and Rhode Island. This list is continuously  evolving and being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. 

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.